Lausanne (Switzerland) Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Swedish pole vaulter Armando “Mondo” Duplantis and Venezuelan triple jumper Yulimar Rojas were on Saturday declared male and female World Athletes of the Year at the World Athletics Awards 2020….
New Delhi, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) The national camp for India’s elite javelin throwers, including Asian Games gold medallist Neeraj Chopra, has shifted from the National Institute of Sport (NIS) in Patiala to the Kalinga Stadium…
New Delhi, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has promoted Radhakrishnan Nair as chief coach of Indian athletics, it was announced on Friday. Nair, 62, had been a deputy to Bahadur Singh,…
London, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Scientists in Britain on Thursday unveiled a new approach to reduce doping in sport. Academics at the University of Birmingham found in a new study that elite athletes can be persuaded…
New Delhi, Nov 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) As many as 89 runners led the charge from Chandigarh during the 16th edition of the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon, held in a bio-secure environment amid the Covid-19 pandemic in…
New Delhi, Nov 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Records tumbled at the Delhi Half Marathon as Ethiopians Amedework Walelegn and Yalemzerf Yehualaw broke course records to take the men’s and women’s titles while India’s Avinash Sable broke the…
New Delhi, Nov 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Eight track and field athletes, including Dutee Chand and KT Irfan, have been included in the core group of the Target Olympic Podium Scheme while seven others have been included…
New Delhi, Nov 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw produced a stunning run over in the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2020 held to clock the second fastest women’s time ever over the distance when she crossed…
New Delhi, Nov 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sunday’s Airtel Delhi Half Marathon (ADHM) will bring people together in India, said Abhinav Bindra, event ambassador and India’s only individual Olympic gold medallist, on Friday. At the event, the…
New Delhi, Nov 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Athletics Federation of India (AFI) is on the lookout for two new high-performance directors for senior and junior athletes after Volker Hermann on Sunday announced that he has resigned from…
New Delhi, Nov 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) India’s athletics high performance director Volker Hermann on Sunday announced that he has resigned from the position. Hermann said in a statement that he put on his Facebook page that…
New Delhi, Nov 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi Half Marathon, which is to be held here on November 29, will feature world record holders Brigid Kosgei and Ababel Yeshaneh, the organisers said in a statement on…
New Delhi, Nov 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Defending champion Srinu Bugatha will lead the Indian elite men’s category alongside Abhishek Pal, Avinash Sable and Pradeep Singh at the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon slated to be held on…
Inzai (Japan), Nov 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Japan’s Eiki Takahashi won the 10,000m race walk event at the Juntendo University Long Distance meeting by completing in a record time 37:25.21. Takahashi managed to hold off a strong…
New Delhi, Nov 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Defending champions Andamlak Belihu and Tsehay Gemecu will return to the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon for the 16th edition of the World Athletics Gold Label Road Race which is slated…
New Delhi, Nov 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 2020 Oxfam Trailwalker India, a fundraising walkathon, has gone virtual this year amid the Covid-19 pandemic and will be completely different from its past 16 editions. Last year, thousands…
Abu Dhabi, Nov 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) has announced the first confirmed speakers for the inaugural Athletes’ Forum for Asian para-athletes which takes place at the start of December. Korean Paralympian Jung…
Gurugram, Nov 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has said he has seen cast-iron determination in the organisers to stage the Olympic Games in Tokyo next year. Originally scheduled to be held from July…
New Delhi, Nov 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Airtel Delhi Half Marathon, a World Athletics Gold Label Road Race, will be held on November 29. While the elite runners will be at the start line at Jawaharlal…
New Delhi, Oct 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Anju Bobby George, the 2003 Athletics World Championships bronze medallist, was on Saturday elected as the Athletics Federation of India’s (AFI) senior vice-president while Olympian Adille Sumariwalla was president for…